Recovery Life Coach
Jordan Peer Recovery offers recovery coaching support through its Recovery Life Coaching Training Program. In this training, individuals are trained to offer on-going support and help identify and address barriers to recovery.
About the Program
What is a recovery life coach?
A recovery life coach is someone with personal experience in recovery who assists others seeking to initiate or maintain recovery. A recovery life coach works to help clients make progress by promoting recovery and assisting clients to address barriers to recovery by serving as a support to clients leading their own life recovery journey.
What does a recovery life coach do?
- Serves as a personal guide and mentor
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- Works in a coaching capacity rather than a counselor/therapist/sponsor capacity
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- Affirms and empowers clients to identify innate strengths to improve health and wellness
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- Empowers and motivates clients to identify and remove obstacles to recovery
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- Teach skills to manage stress
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- Helps clients to discover the choices they want to make in recovery
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- Connect clients to resources that help foster and sustain recovery
What does a recovery life coach not do?
- Promote or endorse any particular way of achieving or maintaining sobriety
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- Diagnose or treat
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- Monitor abstinence
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- Dictate or lecture what someone’s recovery will look like
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- Conduct therapy or counseling
How do I become a recovery life coach?
Jordan Peer Recovery offers the Recovery Coach training program. This self-paced 20 hour training will provide the knowledge, tools, and resources necessary to become an effective recovery life coach.
- To qualify for becoming a recovery life coach, individuals must have experience in recovery directly, or be a family member or friend of someone in recovery (experiencing recovery indirectly)
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- Must be at least 18 years of age
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- Must have HS Diploma or GED equivalent
What would the training for a recovery life coach provide:
- Overview of the role and values of the coaching workforce and JPR (i.e. principles of recovery, person-centered approach, self-determination, advocacy)
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- Understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the Recovery Life Coach job description (including ethics and boundaries)
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- Knowledge of effective communication skills, empathy, advocacy, goal-setting, and coaching techniques
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- Information regarding recovery resources
Expectations of a recovery life coach:
(1) complete the online self-pace training and (2) participate in trainings to stay up to date with coaching research.
FAQ
Can I become a recovery life coach without certification?
What is required of me to become a recovery life coach?
To qualify for becoming a recovery life coach, individuals must have experience in recovery directly, or be a family member or friend of someone in recovery (experiencing recovery indirectly)
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must have HS diploma or GED equivalent
What are some skills it takes to become a recovery life coach?
Some skills required for an effective recovery life coach are communication, compassion, people skills, creativity, problem-solving skills, goal-setting, and progress management.
What education is needed to become a recovery life coach?
A high school diploma or GED and a willingness to learn, listen, and coach are the only education required.
How is a recovery life coach different from a certified peer recovery specialist (CPRS)?
A recovery life coach is not certified under a board. Becoming a recovery life coach is a great way to gain more experience within the recovery workforce and could count towards becoming a certified peer recovery specialist. JPR’s Recovery Life Coach training will give you a head start to becoming a certified Peer Recovery Specialist. If you are interested in becoming a CPRS, you must take another 40 hours of training in Peer recovery competencies and complete 200-500 field experience hours via internship, employment or volunteer work. You must also pass a National or International Certification Board Exam and recertify every 2-years under that certification board to maintain your credential.
How do I get started?
Complete the registration questions and pay the $99 registration fee to access your course.
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